DevOps Automation

Simple python scripts for automating common DevOps operations on Ubuntu (and other debian-based linux distributions).

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Content

• Wordpress Automated Setup
• Apache Automated Site Configuration
• NGINX Automated Reverse Proxy for Web Apps

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Wordpress Automated Setup

Automatically download and extract the latest release of wordpress, create MySQL database and user for use with wordpress, set up wordpress configuration file (wp-config.php) to use the created database and database user, copy wordpess installation to specified target directory, and clean up installation files afterwards.

Basic Usage

sudo ./src/install_wordpress.py --target="/var/www/html" --mysql_root_pass="RootPass" --mysql_pass="MyPass"

Flags and Arguments

• -h: to view help
• --target: Optional. Defaults to /var/www/html/wordpress. Path to install wordpress
• --mysql_root_pass: Required. Password for MySQL root user
• --mysql_pass: Required. Password for MySQL wordpress user
• --mysql_db: Optional. Defaults to wordpress_db. Wordpress database name
• --mysql_user: Optional. Defaults to wordpress_user. Wordpress user name

Requirements

• Run with root privileges (i.e. prefixed with sudo)
• Pyhton3
• Apache2 HTTP Server with mod_rewrite enabled
• MySQL Server
• PHP

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Apache Automated Site Configuration

Automatically generate site config file, enable the site, and restart apache2 service.
SSL support is also included. However, the certificate files must be stored in the default location /etc/ssl/ and the certificate private key must also be stored in the default location /etc/ssl/private

Basic Usage

sudo ./src/apache2_conf_site.py --name="main_site"  --dir="/var/www/html" --server_name="example.com"

Flags and Arguments

• -h: to view help
• -s: Configure site with SSL
• --name: Optional. Defaults to myssite. Site name, saves the configuration file as .conf
• --dir: Optional. Defaults to /var/www/html. Site root directory
• --server_name: Optional. Defaults to localhost. Server hostname
• --server_admin: Optional. Defaults to admin. Server admin
• --ssl_cert: Optional. Defaults to ca.crt. SSL certificate file name. Certificate file must be stored in /etc/ssl/
• --ssl_priv_key: Optional. Defaults to ca-key.key. SSL certificate private key file name. Must be stored in /etc/ssl/private/
• --ssl_cert_bundle: Optional. Defaults to ca-bundle.crt. SSL certificate chain file name. Certificate chain file must be stored in /etc/ssl/

Requirements

• Run with root privileges (i.e. prefixed with sudo)
• Pyhton3
• Apache2 HTTP Server

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NGINX Automated Reverse Proxy for Web Apps

Automatically set up reverse proxy for web apps and reload nginx service to effect changes.

Basic Usage

sudo ./src/nginx_conf.py --name="main_site"  --from_site="127.0.0.1:5000" --server_name="example.com"

In the above example, all incoming traffic to example.com are routed to 127.0.0.1:5000. Similarly, all outgoing traffic from 127.0.0.1:5000 are routed through example.com.

Flags and Arguments

• -h: to view help
• --name: Optional. Defaults to myssite. Site name, saves the configuration file as
• --from_site: Optional. Defaults to localhost:5000. Server hostname
• --server_name: Optional. Defaults to localhost. Server hostname

Requirements

• Run with root privileges (i.e. prefixed with sudo)
• Pyhton3
• Nginx Server